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Corsair MP700 2 TB

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The Corsair MP700 is the first PCI-Express 5.0 SSD that we're reviewing. With transfer rates of up to 10 GB/s this drive is crazy fast. Our review confirms, this is the fastest SSD we've ever tested. With up to 10 W, the MP700 is also the most power-hungry SSD, and it puts out a lot of heat, too.

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700 TBW
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That isn't much compared to most 1TB SSD's have upto 600 TBW...
Should be at least 1200 TBW for a 2TB SSD.
 
Honestly being able to write 600 GBs before the drive dips into 1 GB/s is impressive.
 
ir_cow said:
Honestly being able to write 600 GBs before the drive dips into 1 GB/s is impressive.
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Ya. But that’s probably actively cooled????

edit - so this is the non-actively cooled write test............I guess at about 30secs it still gets to about 225GB

pretty crazy that it just locks, I wonder if a firmware update will correct that issue?

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P4-630 said:
That isn't much compared to most 1TB SSD's have upto 600 TBW...
Should be at least 1200 TBW for a 2TB SSD.
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Whoops, it’s 1400 tbw for the tested 2 tb drive, i put in the value for the 1 tb, fixed now

mechtech said:
Ya. But that’s probably actively cooled????
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Correct
 
on Phison, we're seeing 1 TB NAND = 1 TB DRAM.
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Now that's an amazing SSD :D

Personally I don't see a large SLC cache as a positive. Write speeds drop immensely after it is full and it degrades the drive more quickly. Even my old SN750 writes with 1.5GB/s faster than most new drives after their SLC cache is full.
 
A drive that shuts down after some constant reads/writes (which is normal operation) is not a drive. If this is a trend with PCI-e 5.0, then I'll stay on 4.0, thanks.
 
The 1GB to 1TB cache ratio that's been in place for flash storage for a number of years is also pretty much the sweet spot ratio. Faster DDR5 memory at the conventional ratio for capacity would've made far greater sense.
 
AusWolf said:
A drive that shuts down after some constant reads/writes (which is normal operation) is not a drive. If this is a trend with PCI-e 5.0, then I'll stay on 4.0, thanks.
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It's kind of a new Moore's law. TDP of SSD drives doubles every 3 years. Phison is already working on PCIe 6 SSD with 28W TDP.
 
Great review as always at TPU. Btw, it seems like the KC3000 SLC cache values are identical to the KC2000 review.
 
Good review.
 
Seriously undermined by power, heat and price. PCI-E 4 drives made worse. I'd more than happy with my Crucial P5 Plus and 970 Evo Plus, the latter has much higher sustained write speed, although 660GB is insane and not may people will hit that in the real world.

Another note from the review is what a steaming POS that Sammy 870 QVO is by all measures. It's needs a 75% price cut to even be worthy of consideration.
 
"real life performance gains rather small"

the most important part of the review folks. gen5 just doesn't make sense to me at all. the cooling required is nonsense, especially when 176 layer gen4 exists with amazing 4k reads.

or even something like my dirt cheap WD SN770 drive, it feels snappier than even 176 layer gen4 drive i have... makes no sense. truly is magic, as W1zz said in his review about the SN770.
 
I'm a bit confused, the Asus Z690 ProArt motherboard that this review indicates was used, does not have a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot (at least Asus' website on the motherboard didn't specify that it had a PCIe 5.0 m.2 slot unless I missed it), so was an AIC adapter used?
 
Your review forgot to include noise levels of the fan which is extreme. In fact the noise was so bad that I installed a third party heatsink with fan that is much quieter. I have had the MP700 for a while now.
 
To no one's surprise, very fast sequential transfers that cannot actually be sustained. It's a pretty fast drive in every other aspect, so if Corsair would have stayed away from PCIe 5, they would probably have a fast drive at a decent price instead of this.

One other aspect is at nearly 10W, it matches the power draw of some mechanical drives. That's not going in the right direction.
 
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robert3892 said:
Your review forgot to include noise levels of the fan which is extreme. In fact the noise was so bad that I installed a third party heatsink with fan that is much quieter. I have had the MP700 for a while now.
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There is no fan, there is no heatsink. Our early sample included a heatsink with a fan, which Corsair decided to scrap for public release. The drive is sold without heatsink as detailed on Corsair's website.
 
PapaTaipei said:
"a power cycle was needed for it to restart." What does that even means?
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Once the drive got too hot and reached its thermal throttle point, the drive disappeared from Device Manager, accessing the drive letter returns an error.
Start Menu -> Restart: drive is missing after reboot. Press reset button: drive is missing. Shut down through power button or Start Menu, wait for computer to shut off, press power button, drive is back visible and works normally, no data lost
 
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W1zzard said:
The drive disappeared from Device Manager, accessing the drive letter returns an error.
Start Menu -> Restart: drive is missing after reboot. Press reset button: drive is missing. Shut down through power button or Start Menu, wait for computer to shut off, press power button, drive is back visible and works normally, no data lost
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It would have been much faster if you had a cup of water handy. That would have cooled the drive down faster. Maybe something to keep in mind for future reviews :P
 
W1zzard said:
The drive disappeared from Device Manager, accessing the drive letter returns an error.
Start Menu -> Restart: drive is missing after reboot. Press reset button: drive is missing. Shut down through power button or Start Menu, wait for computer to shut off, press power button, drive is back visible and works normally, no data lost
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No drive should do that, ever. What if you're using it as your OS drive? It could make your computer unusable, and potentially corrupt your system files. I'm extremely disappointed by PCI-e 5.0 so far.

I'm so glad you mention these things in your review. :)
 
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